Designer and Author Debbie Busby of Wooden Spool designs is back to chat with me. We are going to talk about her new book ‘Sew Many Notions’ and dispel a few common fears quilters have about diving into working with wool.

Fussy cutting fabric is contagious. I’ve followed posts from Elisabeth Hardey, the event manager in the marketing dept at Robert Kaufman, for awhile. Then when she and her friend Nichole Ramirez wrote ‘The Fussy Cut Sampler’ made with 9" blocks. I was thrilled to see all their tricks & tips documented in a great book. You might have even done a sew along for their book!

I know you’ve seen the amazing block of the month designs from Sassafras Lane. They also create loads of other designs and I have Shayla Wolf, who is half of the Mother/Daughter team of Shayla Wolf and Kristy Wolf here to give me some pointers on creating their foundation designs.

Pam Damour of the Decorating Diva has so many great projects and tutorials. She is an author and fellow Baby Lock ambassador. It’s always fun to learn how to use our fabric for projects that are not quilts. I asked Pam to share some ideas and tricks today with us!

I have TWO Fussy Cut Sampler books to giveaway!! Leave a comment by 6pm Feb 2 telling me

Your favorite fabric you EVER bought! (describe it a bit)

TWO Winner's emailed

Rene M. who said "My favorite fabric? Oh, so hard to pick! It must be a piece of soft teal with grungy little birds on it. The little birds have attitude and personality. I love this fabric so much I'm afraid to use it."

DeAnn O "I can relate to all of the comments above, but, I am going to add paper! Patterns, notes from classes, quilting magazines, catalogs, pictures of quilts I want to make, instructions for gadgets... The list goes on. I tend to "file by pile". Never can find what I need when I need it!"

Susan H "My worst storage problem us all the scraps. I just seem to have so many and even though I've attempted to cut some into useable widths they are still everywhere"

Her fabric is so gorgeous, I love ALL the different scale patterns in Kate's lines, the pops of orange & pink are very cool. I paired it with a solid light blue for the background to my blocks. I will be putting my quilt up for auction again this year to raise fund, so you could win my quilt!

Most importantly, we are benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with this year’s quilt along. We are asking for a small donation in exchange for downloading each month’s pattern, and together Fat Quarter Shop and Moda will match up to $20,000 of your donation.